A battered sheet of corrugated iron has been placed across the swathe of mud that was once the main road into Panabaj. The words "area of high danger - do not enter" are sprayed in red.

But the BBC's Claire Marshall, in Guatemala, says that many local men, along with women dressed in the colourful embroidered shirts of the native Mayan Indians, walk past the sign into the remains of their village.

She says they want to retrieve their possessions and to try to find the remains of their loved ones.

Tens of thousands of Mayan Indians have been given provisional shelter away from the disaster area near Lake Atitlan.

Images from Guatemala and Mexico as they struggle to cope with the aftermath of Tropical Storm Stan